May 26, 2009

Figure: Bone scan image shows diffuse increased bone uptake throughout the skeleton with relative absence of kidney uptake (arrows), consistent with "superscan". There are several focal areas of uptake in the ribs, skull (arrowhead), scapulae and extremities indicating metastatic disease in a 73-year-old man with prostate cancer. The patient had a right craniotomy defect seen as a photopenic region on the posterior view.

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